According to the legend, she stole and swallowed a pill which enabled liber husband to be transported at will through space. She fled to the moon where she has since remained. "When She got there she brought up the pill, which immediately turned into Chan, fF three-legged toad, This animal can fise be seen in the moon at the base the Cassia tree, When there is eclipse of the moon son Chinese that itis the 0 reeslegged toad tryin to swallow others that it isthe Heavenly Dog. martied during the New Year,"
Tu the same book he ives' a production of a painting of what he falls black hare done by an artist of the Sung period. Actually the animal is a domestic rabbit, as can at 'Once be teen by. the proportionate size of its front Timbs, which are far Mayo to be those' of a hare, may here be noted that much con fusion exists in Chinese literature in antily of hares and "bits, since the Chinese use the Same name, vu for both these animals, language, however, t rabbit Is. off chia (or house hare, while in vara {districts in north China the hare often called yeh ma This is interesting because the have 4s also often called "pus" bby country folk, Barly Hunting Seenes seenes on Chou Cly! bronze vessels, the hare is shown a unal of the chase being pursued bby hounds. The same motif is depicted on stone steles of the Man Dynasty, some of the hunters. being
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